Lindaunis Brücke / Bridge

Since the start of the season, the Lindaunis road and railway bridge can once again be passed by ships.

The temporary pedestrian/cyclist bridge is opened for ships eight times a day for around 20 minutes. The openings for shipping traffic then take place daily at

• 10.30 a.m.
• 11.30 a.m.
• 12.30 pm
• 01.30 pm
• 02.30 pm
• 03.30 pm
• 04.30 pm and
• 05.30 pm

The signalling system at the Lindaunis road and railway bridge releases traffic alternately in a one-way system by means of traffic signals.

At opening time, traffic in the direction of Kappeln is released for 10 minutes before both directions of travel are closed for 1 minute.

Traffic in the direction of Schleswig is then released for 10 minutes before both directions of traffic are closed again until the next opening time.

 Order:

The following maximum speed through the water is hereby ordered:

-When passing through the main opening of the Lindaunis road and railway bridge 10 km/h (5.4 kn)

Suction and wave impact are to be avoided.

Signals
	Passage prohibited
	Passage prohibited, opening in preparation
	Closed for shipping
	Passage allowed if clearance is sufficient
	Passage allowed
	Passage allowed, passage for other direction prohibited

Bridge opening hours:

Any two flags are used as bridge opening signals.

The bridge passages and the Schleif fairway are subject to the SeeSchStrO. Sailing vessels have no priority in the bridge passage.

Traffic regulation in the narrow section is governed by the Seeschifffahrtsstraßen-Ordnung § 25 Para. (5) with application of 2. (tide-free waters) and Para. (6), if traffic is cleared for both sides by the signalling system. (Seeschifffahrtsstraßen-Ordnung, Annex I, Section I, A 19 Passage of movable bridges).

This means that vehicles travelling towards Schleswig will have right of way at the narrow section of the bridge passage and vehicles travelling towards Kappeln will have to wait if there is oncoming traffic.

A little history:

The Lindaunis bascule bridge was built in 1925 for three modes of transport: Cars, the railway and ships. The railway had right of way on the narrow carriageway with a built-in rail track. At three quarters of an hour, it was the pleasure craft's turn. The immovable part of the structure came from a bridge that used to span the Kiel Canal, so it was already "recycled goods" at the time it was put into operation on the Schlei.
Increasingly complex repairs, more frequent and longer and longer downtimes of the historic bridge eventually made it necessary to rebuild the technical bridge monument.
In the meantime, the new bridge construction, which began in 2020, has made a name for itself as a permanent construction site for Deutsche Bahn with an open completion date. This is causing a great deal of resentment in the surrounding communities and has led to the insolvency of the "Gut Stubbe" fruit farm, among others. Characterised by bureaucracy, the issue of new guidelines for safety and durability by Deutsche Bahn in the middle of the construction phase means that the construction work will have to be put out to tender again throughout the EU from summer 2024 and the targeted completion date of 2025 will be postponed indefinitely.